This song describes the origin of the first madrigal – or the first love song. The poem (written in Galician), as well as the music, bring references of Ancient Greece in the use of rhythm and modality, in a casual and playful tone. Recorded in 2014 (Release pending)
Tres apuntes
Tres apuntes is a song cycle in three movements, all of them in their own way referring to the qualities of Music. The first song, “Revelación” (Revelation) finds the existence of the Divine within music. The second song, “Vals del atardecer” (Waltz of Dusk) is a playful song at the rhythm of waltz where instruments dance […]
Oda a Covadonga
This short song for tenor and piano evokes the spirit of Covadonga, the birth place of Spain and Asturias as a country. The piece, commissioned by tenor Joaquín Pixán uses texts by Álvaro Sánchez Albornoz from “El Reino de Asturias” (The Kingdom of Asturias). The song is an exaltation of the exhilarating landscape of the […]
Cantos del Emigrante
A song cycle in eight movements, which portrays the life of an immigrant from the first time when he arrives to the new country and his sentiments of nostalgia to his final moments as he leaves the world and remembers the homeland. De Los Caballos (Lorences) Prioritaria Alcordanza Persistente (Lorences) We Have The Blues (Lorences) […]
Shakespeare’s Love
I. Romeo (Infatuation) II. Falstaff (Womanizing) III. Orsino (Passionate, Impetuous) IV. Iago (Jelousy) V. Antony (Eternal Love) This song cycle for tenor and piano celebrates the 450th Anniversary of Shakespeare. The text of this work is based on five soliloquies on diverse aspects of love as portrayed by leading male characters from Shakespeare’s plays. The […]